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"What do you want to do?" Søren asked, his voice almost a whisper

"I don’t know Like I said, I’ve never done this before I don’t knohat the protocol is"

"We should talk about your lied and smiled

"Limits?"

"Limits What you don’t want me to do The lines that you don’t want crossed, what are they?"

She stared at hie or had broken into song Her lines she wouldn’t let him cross?

"I walked with you to your death You knew you were going to have to die for Nora and you went, anyway I saw you do it There is nothing I wouldn’t trust you to do toanswer It’s the truth And it’s the only answer I have"

Søren sighed and took her by the shoulders

"If you won’t tell me what you don’t want, perhaps you could tell me what you do want"

His hands moved from her shoulders to the front of her shirt He unbuttoned the top button Grace stiffened but made no protest Nora had warned her, after all

"What I wantthat ive you everything you want But I ht let you try to earn it"

He sant and do

Another button came undone, then another

She’d asked Nora about hoould all proceed once things started

He’ll beat you with various toys probably, Nora had said, as if getting beaten were nothing ame Anywhere from a few minutes to a couple hours, whatever you can take

Nervously Grace posed one final question

And hoeI mean, how does hefinish?

Grace, my dear, God created the feood reason

"Tellyou want, Grace," he said as he reached the bottoht ends here"

"I want you to kiss me," she said, surprised by her boldness

"Is that so?" He undid the last button and opened her shirt With torturous slowness he dragged it over her shoulders and down her aruess how many people I’ve kissed on the mouth inher breast with his thumb

"Probably as few as I have"